Version Override

[inri]

I read in an forum entry that other people installed scalix 11 on opensuse 10.3 and that they used a version-override feature. But i did not found how to use it!
Can you please explain me, how to use this feature or another way to install scalix 11 on oss 10.3?

[Kris]

You need to start the install with the override option. For example, to install Scalix 11 on an CentOS 5 server I started the installer like this:

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./scalix-installer --override=rhel5

I don't know what override parameter you need for OpenSuse 10.3.

Hope this helps,

Kris

[Valerion]

You can get a list of supported ids with

./scalix-installer --show-release-ids

However, having said that, Scalix is not tested on OpenSuse 10.3, and as such may very well break / misbehave. If it breaks, you get to keep both pieces.

I would really recommend not running a production server on what Scalix considers a testing distro.

[inri]

the --override-release=suse102 worked. The installation started. But when checking the dependcies, i get always the info that, "libical-dvel" would not be installed. I checked it with rpm -qa and saw, that the installed versions are as follows:

libical-devel-0.24.RC4-143
libical-debuginfo-0.24.RC4-143
libical-0.24.RC4-143

i don't know, why the scxalix-installer says that no libical-devel is available!?

[a.schild]

Probably because it does not have a corresponding matching version for this OS.


I strongly suggest to look at CentOS 5.

André

[florian]

you can possibly work around the libical thing by installing the libical rpm manually - it is in the 3rd-party directory of the tarball. this should certainly work.

however, as said, some other things might not - we have not done any testing with openSUSE 10.3. I agree with what was said - the likeliness that you don't have any issues with centos is much higher.

as a side remark, we'll support centos for evaluation and community edition in scalix 11.3, with full support for the commercial versions planned for 11.4.

cheers,
Florian.